Polished concrete is an elegant, resilient, sustainable alternative to floorcoverings and epoxies. It can be used in a variety of spaces in government / military, corporate / office, educational, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, and retail settings. The process provides increased strength over standard concrete as well as most floorcoverings and many resinous systems. With the addition of pigmented stains and decorative saw cuts the look of natural stone, or tiles can be achieved with lower installed, maintenance and life cycle costs. Sealed, stained, and epoxy coated concrete are sometimes confused with polished concrete. While each of these treatments has benefits, none of them perform like polished concrete. Polished concrete mechanically transforms the concrete through the use of hardening agents and grinding with diamond tooling. There are no coatings to chip, scratch, or fail, the shine you see is the concrete.

Polished concrete is the processing of a concrete surface with bonded abrasives to achieve a desired class of aggregate exposure and level of reflective clarity and reflective sheen (CPAA).